Grammar: Verbs of the senses p. 99

Find six mistakes in the list. There is one in each sentence.

Making the most of your senses
1 Try having a walk in the wood and breathe in: nature sounds wonderful.
2 Walk slowly on a beach, put your bare feet on the sand or on the grass. It should feel like relaxing.
3 Go to a silent place and spend 10 minutes without speaking. Does it look strange?
4 Close your eyes and take a bite of something you like (pizza? chocolate?). Probably it will be tasting better.
5 Have a walk in your neighbourhood and look at the little details and the colours, watch the expressions of the passers-by. Do they sound happy?

Complete the blog entry with the verbs below in the correct tense.
look • seem • taste • not feel • smell like • sound • not look like

Yesterday I went to the Met Museum in New York. I'd heard about Teen Fridays when they were speaking about it on the school radio: it ________ interesting and I decided to give it a try. Teen Fridays are activities planned by teens and aimed at 15-18 year-old who want to meet other teens and creative professionals. It always ________ important when renowned cultural institutions create spaces and events for young people, don't you think so? My friend Judith and I arrived there after lunch. By the way, the Met is a wonderful palace, it ________ imposing with its neoclassical façade. It ________ a typical American building, so the experience starts outside. Once we got in, we took part in the activities for teens and we enjoyed them. There was a multisensory lab with scratch-and-sniff paintings we had to 'activate'. One was a seascape which ________ the seaside thanks to a mixture of spices and coconut. Amazing! We could also touch some little statues made of terracotta: surprisingly, they ________ smooth. We could listen to music in a stress-free space and they also offered us some snacks, which ________ very good. It was a great afternoon and I recommend this experience to all teens.

Complete the blog entry with the correct form of the verbs below. Add like and as if when necessary. Then think about the text. Have you got a favourite work of art? What interesting work of art have you seen recently? Make any changes you need and use it for your oral production.
look (x3) • feel • seem • sound

My favourite work of art is called Hanging Heart and it's by American Neo-Pop artist Jeff Koons.
The name ________ beautiful and it perfectly describes the appearance of this sculpture: it is a gigantic golden heart hanging by a huge magenta ribbon. In my opinion, it ________ beautiful.
The artist has made five different versions in different colours, but I particularly like the one I saw at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. When I saw it, I thought it ________ a light balloon. However, the museum guide told me that, if we touched it and tried carrying it, it would actually ________ hard and heavy because it's made of steel and weighs more than 3,000 pounds (over 1,400 kilos).
Hanging Heart is a playful work of art that ________ the artist had made a giant Christmas decoration. Jeff Koons created it for his Celebration series and critics say it should remind viewers of Valentine's Day. It may ________ art without a message, but it's not: in all the works of the series Koons celebrates pleasure and childhood, which is usually joyful.